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ANNE MOORE, OF TUTBURY. 
from Others. Itwassufficient for heronce to see or hear any thingdone, 
she soon made it her own, She was her father’s amanuensis and assistant 
upon all occasions ; she wrote for him, and read to him in all languages 
and sciences; she made drawings for him of all kinds, astronomical, 
mathematical, mechanical, &c. She arranged and managed his library, 
and knew so well where all his books stood, that she could find them 
even in the dark. She was author of several ingenious compositions 
and calculations. She extracted the square-roots of most of the 
second 1000 numbers, to twelve places of decimals, and proved the 
truth of them by means of differences ; arranging the whole in a 
table fit for publication. She drew elegant geographical maps, and, 
only the second day before she died, began and completed the whole 
hemisphere of the earth. In composition, whether epistolary or 
scientific, her style was excellent. 
In the midst of all these litergry acquisitions, she was so active in 
family affairs, that she was no less useful to her mother in her domestic 
concerns, than to her father in his scientific business. To all these 
qualifications, she added uncommon goodness, affability, cheerfulness, 
and sweetness of disposition, which made her as much beloved, as her 
extraordinary talents and acquirements made her admired. 
Anne Moore, of Tutbury. 
This woman was an impostor, who professed to live without taking 
any food. She was a native ofRoystou, near Ashborn, in Derbyshire, 
where she was born in 1761. Her maiden name was Peg, and her 
parents were persons of low and mean extraction. At the age of 
twenty-seven, Anne was married to James Moore, a labouring man. 
She soon separated from her husband, went again to service, and had 
two children by her master. 
About the beginning of the year 1807, Anne Moore was resident 
at Tutbury, a village in Staffordshire. It was then that she first 
excited the attention of the public, by making an open declaration 
that she could exist without food, offering to prove the truth of her 
declaration by submitting to be watched for such a period as should 
place the matter beyond all doubt. 
In order that there might be no appearance of deception, she suf- 
fered herself to be removed from her own dwelling to the house of 
Mr. Jackson, grocer, of the same village, and all the inhabitants were 
solicited to unite in watching her conduct. Mr. Taylor, a surgeon, 
was .superintendant of the watch, which continued sixteen days, dur- 
ing which time she took no sustenance, except a little water on the 
three first days. At the conclusion of the watch, she was removed to 
her own home, and Mr. Taylor published an account, declaring that 
shehad lived for thirteen days without taking any food, liquid or solid. 
This account, so attested, was believed by numbers, who flocked to 
see her, and few visited her without leaving her some proof of their 
credulity or pity. By this means she collected about £250. 
Though the declaration of the persons who formerly watched her 
had obtained considerable credit, yet there were many who thought 
her an impostor, and demanded that she should be again watched. 
